Fathers

(427 votes)   The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(363 votes)   A father is a banker provided by nature.

French Proverb

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(332 votes)   Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.''

John Aubrey
1626-161997, British Antiquarian, Writer

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(304 votes)   The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(292 votes)   Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(286 votes)   We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(285 votes)   If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Matthew 7:11

BIBLE

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(279 votes)   A father is a banker provided by nature.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(272 votes)   When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Jewish Proverb

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(269 votes)   If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(263 votes)   In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Croesus

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(253 votes)   A father is a guy who has snapshots where his money sued to be.

Anonymous

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(253 votes)   By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadworth

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(253 votes)   His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

John Marquand
1893-1960, American Author

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(248 votes)   Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

Anonymous

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